A Master Guide: How to Enable Cookies on Your Web Browser

Overview

What are cookies? Cookies are little pieces of data that can be stored on your web browser, used for visitor tracking purposes. Cookies cannot access your system or retrieve information that isn't already showing on your web browser. Cookies cannot access your hard drive or send information about your computer system. Cookies are just simply a data storage system.

Supersite 3.0, Portales, Portails, and Senderos PRIME sites will operate more efficiently if your internet browser has certain preferences set. For all supported browsers, “Cookies” must be accepted, Security should be set initially to “medium” or “default” and JavaScript should be enabled.

Enable Cookies MS EDGE

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To enable MS EDGE cookies follow these steps:

Open the Microsoft Edge.

Click the "Settings and more" button

In the top right hand corner of your Edge browser's window, you will see a small button with 3 dots in it. This is the "Settings and more" button

Select the "Settings" menu item

At the bottom of the large menu, the bottom item will be called Settings.

Click on the "Site permissions" menu item

Then Click on the “Cookies and site data” menu item

Make sure that “Allow sites to save and read cookie data” is enabled

The settings you change take effect immediately, and when you're finished changing the options you can simply close the Settings tab that contained these options and resume browsing.

Enable Cookies CHROME

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To enable Chrome cookies follow these steps:

Click the "Customize and Control" button

In the top-right corner of the Chrome window you'll see the Customize menu icon - it looks like three little black dots on top of each other.

Select the "Settings" menu item

Search for the Cookies settings

The main interface for Chrome's settings will appear, with a search box at the very top.

Scroll down to "Site settings" under “Privacy and security” and click on it

Click the "Cookies" item

Now that you've gone into the Site settings section, you'll see the first option there is Cookies. You'll notice that it's still highlighted yellow due to your search for it. Click it to see your Cookies settings.

Make sure that “Allow sites to save and read cookie data” is enabled

The settings you change take effect immediately, and when you're finished changing the options you can simply close the Settings tab that contained these options and resume browsing.

Enable Cookies FIREFOX

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To enable Firefox cookies follow these steps:

Click the menu button

The menu button will be in the top right-hand corner of Firefox; it looks like three horizontal lines on top of each other.

Click the "Options" menu item

After you've clicked the menu button, the Firefox menu apears; one of the items in it is Options (note: on macOS it is called Preferences).

Click the "Privacy & Security" menu item

The major sections are shown as menu items up the left of the Options/Preferences window. Click the Privacy & Security item.

Under "Enhanced Tracking Protection" click on "Custom"

Make sure "Cookies" is enabled and the drop-down is set to "Cross-site and social media trackers"

The settings you change take effect immediately, and when you're finished changing the options you can simply close the Settings tab that contained these options and resume browsing.